BECOMING

Stories, insights, and somatic tools for healing, parenting, and becoming who you've always needed.

Drink It In: A Simple Practice to Restore Your Nervous System nervous system restoration somatic practice Aug 14, 2025

One practice I love to share (and use every single day) is called somatic orienting.

It’s simple, it’s accessible, and it’s all about taking in the world around you through your senses, especially your eyes.

Somatic orienting means slowing down enough to notice the things in your environment that are aesthetically pleasing, that spark joy, that give you energy. It’s like stop and smell the roses...

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Healing the Parent. Honoring the Child. healing journey somatic parenting Aug 07, 2025

Every child enters this world whole, sacred, and enough.

My role as a parent is to honor that truth...
  To guide with love, not fear,
  To protect their light from being dimmed.
As a coach, I help others do the same.
Because this isn’t just parenting. It’s legacy work.

- Vivian Meraki

I work with parents who love their children deeply, but are carrying the wounds from lived experience or the chi...

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What Is Somatic Coaching? somatic coaching Jul 07, 2025

A Guide to Nervous System Healing and Emotional Resilience

If you’ve ever found yourself saying:

  • “I know I should be okay, but I’m not.”

  • “I’ve done the mindset work, so why do I still feel stuck?”

  • “Why does the smallest thing send me spiraling?”

You’re not alone, and more importantly, you’re not broken. You may just be dysregulated and your nervous system may be asking for som...

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The Day I Chose My Voice speaking Jun 24, 2025

What Winning Speaker Slam Taught Me About Power, Parenting, and Becoming

Last month, I stepped onto a stage and shared a story I had carried for almost my entire life.

I didn’t know what would happen. I only knew that I was done hiding.

That night, I stood in front of over a hundred people at North America’s largest inspirational speaking competition, Speaker Slam, and delivered a story about c...

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True Strength Isn’t What You’ve Been Taught burnout emotional resilience grief healing after divorce healing journey parenting through divorce redefining success self-trust success May 13, 2022

Maybe it’s time we redefine what success, stability, and strength really mean.

We’re taught a lot about what it means to be successful. To be stable. To be strong. But what if much of what we’ve been told… just doesn’t hold up in real life?

Through my own healing, I’ve had to unlearn the cultural definitions of strength and success: the ones that reward performance over presence, and pressure us...

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